Elizabeth Donald

Edwardsville

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Freelance journalist, @stlspj president, Ethics Committee, professionally nosy. she/her. Fiction: see @edonald. https://t.co/EB8l2jM16m

Featured in: Favicon

medium.com Favicon

yahoo.com (+5) Favicon

chicagotribune.com Favicon

stuff.co.nz Favicon

seattletimes.com Favicon

baltimoresun.com Favicon

miamiherald.com Favicon

washingtontimes.com Favicon

stltoday.com Favicon

charlotteobserver.com + 60 more

Articles

Silence

1 week ago | elizabethdonald42.medium.com | Elizabeth Donald

The other day’s reading was a reread of an essay by Carl Phillips, included in his writing memoir, My Trade Is Mystery. It’s really a lovely book, and very useful for me as a writer. There are a couple of segments in it that I use for my composition classes, so I was reviewing the segment titled “Silence“ before presenting it to my 102 students. In it, Phillips isn’t actually talking about silence as in the absence of audible sound.
Relay For Life of Riverbend Unveils New Format in 2025

1 week ago | riverbender.com | Elizabeth Donald

ROXANA – The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Riverbend, presented by OSF HealthCare, is proud to announce an exciting new format for its 2025 signature event. Taking place on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at the RoxArena in Roxana Community Park, this year’s event will be a Relay For Life Survivor and Team Dinner with the theme —“Re-Lei for a Cure!”.
Edwardsville Author Publishes Tenth Book

4 weeks ago | riverbender.com | Elizabeth Donald

EDWARDSVILLE – Award-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Donald is proud to announce her latest book, Blackfire Rising, released April 3, 2025 from Falstaff Books. A long-time resident of Edwardsville, Ill., Elizabeth Donald is a writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She is the author of the Blackfire urban fantasy series and Nocturne vampire mystery series, as well as other novels, novellas and short stories in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres.
True or false

2 months ago | elizabethdonald42.medium.com | Elizabeth Donald

Member-only storyElizabeth Donald·Follow4 min read·--As with so many of my brainstorms, this one started with Sean Taylor. He asked those of us who write both fiction and nonfiction to think about the ways in which our writing processes differ. Nonfiction is my bread and butter. I took my journalism degree into the newspaper world in 1997 and have worked in the news ever since, including my time on the national ethics committee and as president of the St. Louis Society of Professional Journalists.
Dance with the page

Feb 5, 2025 | elizabethdonald42.medium.com | Elizabeth Donald

Elizabeth Donald·Follow6 min read·--One of the things I like the most about my writing career is that I write a little bit of almost everything. I’m probably better known for 25 years in journalism, most of it as a full-time hard news reporter, than I am for my books, even though I’ve been published in fiction for more than 20 years. Even in fiction, I write a little bit of everything.
How to survive a horror movie: 2024 edition

Oct 31, 2024 | elizabethdonald42.medium.com | Elizabeth Donald

Elizabeth Donald·Follow9 min read·--Once upon a time, my father the film professor wrote an academic research article analyzing the behavior of horror movie victims in the light of Darwinian theory. He titled it, “Don’t Do That, You Twit!”It got published. In an academic journal. As I was the biggest horror-movie nerd within reach, Dad enlisted my help to edit and expand his research. Thus was born my personal list of 100 survival tactics to survive a horror movie.
In which Elizabeth wins an award…

Oct 28, 2024 | donaldmedia.com | Elizabeth Donald

As a freelancer, my work is rarely submitted for awards, much less wins one. However… From the press release: The International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) today announced its … labor communications contest winners. Annually, the organization hosts what is now the largest competition exclusively for labor journalists and communicators. Thousands of entries that tell the story of the global labor movement are judged by experts in the field across the industry.
St. Andrews to have book fair in Edwardsville IL

Oct 27, 2024 | theintelligencer.com | Elizabeth Donald

Thousands of books, movies, music and more will be offered for sale at the long-running St. Andrew’s Book Fair this summer on Nov. 1-2. For more than 20 years, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church has offered its recurring book fair at the church at 406 Hillsboro Ave. in Edwardsville, Illinois.
The Cookie Box is bringing family tradition to St. Charles County

Sep 27, 2024 | feastmagazine.com | Elizabeth Donald

When Jackie Smith was a little girl in Texas, her grandma Jojo lived in Oklahoma – and that was too far to travel for cookies. To remedy this, she decorated a plain white box with scraps of ribbon and fabric and mailed it to her grandmother with a specific request. Sure enough, it arrived full of cookies, and Smith returned it empty. It traveled back and forth for years, and eventually, “the cookie box” became a family legend.
Illinois eliminated sales tax on groceries, but a metro-east city may bring it back

Aug 21, 2024 | bnd.com | Elizabeth Donald

Highland is considering creating its own grocery tax to replace the one eliminated by the state earlier this month. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that eliminates the 1% grocery tax statewide, effective Jan. 1. That tax primarily benefits local governments, including Highland, and many are scrambling to figure out how to make up for the lost revenue. At issue is a 1% tax on food and prescriptions for home consumption.